English Department Film Trip: October 3!

Join professor Megan Quigley, Tuesday Oct. 3 at 7:00 pm, at our local independent theater, BMFI, for an advanced screening of “Cat Person,” an adaptation of the ’story that broke the internet’ when it was first published in The New Yorker in 2017.

The story is linked here. The wild follow up (read the story first) is linked here: Cat Person & Me.

Shoot Professor Quigley (megan.quigley@villanova.edu) an email if you plan to join—or just show up! Tickets are $11.00. Buy tickets here: https://brynmawrfilm.org/event/advance-screening-cat-person/

Open Mic Night: Kelly Writer's House 11/3

Join Jackie Carroll, English major extraordinaire, and attend the November Open Mic Night at Kelly Writer's House at Penn on Wednesday, November 3 at 7:30 pm. Jackie will be taking public transportation to the event and welcomes company. If you are interested in attending, contact her directly at jcarro29(at)villanova.edu or 215-207-1092. 

As the Kelly Writer's House puts it:

"Our student-run open mic night welcomes all kinds of readings, performances, spectacles, and happenings. Bring your poetry, your guitar, your dance troupe, your award-winning essay, or your stand-up comedy to share"

Build a writerly community in the Philadelphia area!

English Expedition Club Encounters Dracula

Beware.  Students from Professor Megan Quigley’s 1975 class and the English Expedition Club hit the Rosenbach Museum and Library on Saturday Oct. 22nd to take in the Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit and for a hands-on tour of Dracula materials with curator Ed Pettit.  Did you know that Bram Stoker originally intended to call Dracula just count Vampyre?  And that plenty believed at the time that vampires roamed the earth?  Let’s hope they were wrong….

English Expedition Club: Frankenstein & Dracula Exhibit at the Rosenbach

When: Saturday October 21 at 12:00 p.m.
Where: The Rosenbach Museum and Library
Why: Blood, Guts, Gore and Modern Science meet Literature

Details:
Join the English Expedition Club for a timely exhibit in this month of ghosts and ghouls on Dracula and Frankenstein at the Rosenbach Library, near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square.  At 12:00 Curator Edward Pettit will meet with Villanova students to show pages of the Dracula manuscript and discuss the history of this great collection in Philadelphia.  Space is limited for the hands-on tour.  Please email Professor Quigley (megan.quigley@villanova.edu) by Wednesday 12/18 if you’d like to join the hands-on tour.  We will also tour the Frankenstein & Dracula Exhibit between 12-2!  No need to RSVP for the exhibit.  The cost of admission is covered by the English Department.  I look forward to seeing you!

Address:
Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-2010 DeLancey Place
Philadelphia, PA 19103
DeLancey Place is located between Pine & Spruce Streets, in Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square
district.

Directions:
Public Transportation:
SEPTA
- Regional Rail to Suburban Station, 16th & Market

(if desired, then: - Route 17 Bus via 19th & 20th Streets)
SEPTA
There is a 10:47 train that arrives in Suburban Station at 11:21
There is a 11:17 train that arrives in Suburban Station at 11:50
There is a 12:17 train that arrives in Suburban Station at 12:50
There is a 12:47 train that arrives in Suburban Station at 1:21

It is approximately a ten minute (FAST) walk from Suburban station to the Rosenbach. I highly recommend taking the earlier train to make it to the library on time.

Driving:
When available, street parking is free for two hours.  There are several parking garages located on 20th Street a few blocks north, near Walnut Street and Chestnut Street.  I find parking there very difficult.  If you decide to drive, leave time for parking and traffic.